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Author
David Kraus, Ruediger Grote, Steffen Klatt,

Stefan–Boltzmann equation for the power radiated from a black body in terms of its temperature.

Thornton

Global radiation depending on latitude

Sun declination

Eccentricity factor for calculation of extraterrestrial radiation (Fortin et al., 2008)

Daily extraterrestrial radiation as developed by Sellers 1961 (cit. in Fortin et al. 2008, and Cai et al. 2007) note: formula of sun declination wrong in Fortin et al. 2008

Ratio between diffuse and total solar irradiance after Friend et al., 2001

Lizaso et al. 2005

Daylength

Daylength period

Saturated vapor pressure according to hamon:1963a

When foliage temperature is above 0oC, saturated vapor pressure is calculated as:

\[ svp = 0.61078 * \exp(17.26939 * \frac{T}{T + 237.3}) \]

When foliage temperature is below 0oC, it is:

\[ svp = 0.61078 * \exp(21.87456 * \frac{T}{T + 265.5}) \]

Annual mean temperature

Incoming longwave radiation

Incoming longwave radiation is given by:

\[ LWR_{in} = \varepsilon \sigma T^4 \; , \]

wherein \( \varepsilon, \sigma, T \) refer to the emissivity, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant and air temperature, respectively.

The emissivity \( \varepsilon \) has two components , i.e., emissivity under clear ( \( \varepsilon_{cl} \)) and clouded sky ( \( \varepsilon_{cl} \)):

\[ \varepsilon = (1 - f_{cl}) \varepsilon_{cs} + f_{cl} \varepsilon_{cl} \]

The partitioning coefficient \( f_{cl} \) refers to the cloud fracion. For \( \varepsilon_{cl} \), a constant value of 0.976 is used [greuell:1997a].

Clear sky atmospheric emissivity
Emissivity of incoming longwave radiation under clear sky conditions is calculated based on vapour pressure \( vp \) [brunt:1932a] :

\[ \varepsilon_{cs} = B_c + B_d \sqrt{vp} \]

The parameters \( B_c \) and \( B_d \) are set to 0.53 and 0.212, respectively [kraalingen:1997a].

Cloudiness
Cloudiness is derived from global radiation using the Angstrom formular:

\[ f_{cl} = \frac{\frac{SWR}{SWR^{\ast}} - A}{B} \]

using the Angstrom parameters \( A = 0.29 \) and \( B = 0.52 \) [kraalingen:1997a].